A third post that intrigued me was Bill Cholenski’s post at Catallarchy on the PBS history reality shows. Bill’s list of the free-market/Austrian/Hayekian principles that people would learn from these experiences is good: 1) They allow one to observe the subtle changes in the way a person thinks and acts when placed in a different …
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One other post that caught my attention is Kevin Brancato’s observations on gasoline price controls in Iraq: I found out that not only is the price ceiling set really low, there is a state monopoly on retail gasoline stations. Kevin’s lesson in basic economics is important: an artificially low price for a scarce good, and …
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Carnival of the Capitalists, hosted this week at A Special Kind of Stupid, highlights a lot of the interesting posts during my absence. Of particular interest to me is Steve Verdon’s post on highway congestion pricing, an idea that has been way, way too long in coming. Steve spends a lot of the post delving …
It’s bone-numbingly cold here in Chicago today; at last report the temp was still in the single digits and the wind chill was hovering around -10F. And the reason I came back from the ASSA meetings in San Diego was … ? At least we finally have some snow, and may have a fresh layer …
We’ve been to see Girl With A Pearl Earring and LOTR: Return of the King. I greatly enjoyed GWAPE, as I knew I would. The most remarkable things about it (except for the scene with Vermeer standing in a doorway looking exceedingly yummy in a blue velvet waistcoat) were the pacing and the luminosity of …
Happy new year to one and all. I’ve been letting the batteries recharge, doing little else on the computer for the past two weeks save check my email and hunt down screen captures from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Have spent the past couple of days very happily visiting with friends at various …
Vacation was lovely; we hiked into Haleakala crater and swam with sea turtles. More on that later, after I’ve recovered from taking the redeye back. Meanwhile, I was very interested in Arnold Kling’s economics education take on Tyler Cowen’s post on the Buchanan “Soul of Classical Liberalism” essay. I find that I increasingly use the …
I’ve lifted this comment out of the comment box on the second water privatization post. It’s from Ed Reid, one of my very knowledgeable colleagues and sometimes, but not often enough, co-authors. Over to Ed: Water supply shortages tend not to be short term events. They may persist for months or even years, as is …
Not actually, more like on sand … got a 6 AM flight to Maui tomorrow, so will be largely out of commission until Monday 22 December. I’ve teed up some draft posts if I can be bothered to come in off the ocean and out of my kayak without the Knowledge Spouse getting all bunchy …
Please note that I’ve added another RSS feed; redundancy is low cost and since I can’t be bothered to keep track of all of the different xml/rdf/0.91/2.0 crap, I figure having redundant feeds gets me out of having to pay attention. At least for now. I’ve also put up links to places that aggregate information …
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